Women raise voices across Latin America for equality

Record ID: 1714673

  • Title: Women raise voices across Latin America for equality
  • Date: 9th March 2023
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER, VALENTINA, SAYING: “Today in the morning, I was walking to the university. I was wearing my scarf and they (men) passed by my side and harassed me. I realized it doesn’t matter if it is 8M (March 8) or any other day. We’ve always been through this and unfortunately, we will still have to live this. This is why we came.” WOMEN MARCHI
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 2023 01:03
  • Keywords: Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Mexico Peru Uruguay Venezuela Women's Day femicide protest
  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • City: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • Country: Various
  • Topics: Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA003579808032023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: CONTAINS NUDITY
    Thousands donned in purple marched through the streets of Latin American capitals on Wednesday (March 8) to mark International Women’s Day denouncing violence against women, femicides, the gender pay gap, and racial discrimination.
    In Mexico City, women in droves marched along Reforma avenue to the Zocalo square on a route that was lined by metal barriers erected to protect buildings and monuments from vandalism.
    Protester Melisa told Reuters she still feels the pain of sexual abuse from a classmate she suffered when she was in high school and that was unable to report to authorities.
    According to authorities, at least ten women were murdered every day in Mexico in 2022.
    Carrying signs and indigenous Wiphala flags, Bolivian women, including farmers and miners, marched through the streets of La Paz.
    The march remembered those who shed light on the feminist cause and died for women's rights, protester Florencia Quispe told Reuters.
    Uruguayan demonstrators in Montevideo carried signs denouncing oppression and hunger and demanded respect.
    In inflation-hit Venezuela, women demanded better salaries as monthly private sector pay averages $139 and public sector salaries are around $14 per month, according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Finances, while the average family grocery shop comes in at some $370 per month.
    Indigenous women marched in the Peruvian capital of Lima demanding the end of racial discrimination and the ouster of President Dina Boluarte following over three months of anti-government protests that have claimed the lives of dozens.
    Protester Ivon Saavedra said Peruvian indigenous women don’t feel valued by society because of racism.
    With chants of ‘Down with the patriarchy, up with feminism’ women in Chile demanded the end of harassment and justice for gender violence victims.
    Alongside a giant pink banner reading ‘Ni una menos’ or Not one less – a popular phrase denouncing femicide in Latin America – thousands of Argentine women marched in Buenos Aires.
    Despite Argentina’s privileged position regarding human rights, the country needs an urgent feminist justice reform, said protester Ornella Di Ruggeiro.
    In Rio de Janeiro, where women gathered to chant and play music.
    Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s election brings hope that things will change, said protester Claudia Paixao.
    According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), as a region, Latin America has an annual average of more than 4,300 femicides per year.
    (Production: Efrain Otero, Johnny Carvajal, Alberto Fajardo, Manuel Carrillo,Toya Sarno Jordan, Sebastian Rocandio, Rodrigo Gutierrez, Alejandro Obaldia, Horacio Soria, Juan Bustamante, Pola Grzanka, Carlos Valdez, Anna Portella, Nina Lopez)
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